Wellington 3rd XI’s good run in Division Seven South of the Somerset League was ended last weekend at Bradford Abbas CC, near Sherborne, when Yeovil 3rd XI had too much in the tank for the Red and Blacks third string to make it five out of five and so to also have won all their games in July.

To this end Wellington were just over the border into Dorset and were confronted with as dry and parched a surface as there has been this summer, but with a wind so strong that players could not hear each other at times and with rolling shower clouds doing the rounds too it was a dynamic backdrop to the game.

Yeovil opted to bat first on winning the toss and saw Boucher and Farr each use being dropped once apiece to their advantage as they added 69 for the home side’s opening wicket making 43 and 21 between them.

Catches from father and son pair Rob and Olly Hunt were good to see as this pair was finally spilt up.

A knock of 51no from Malcolm was the main feature of the Yeovil innings, but he benefited from been dropped early in the six over spell that took place between 35 and 40 overs as this was played after an early tea had been taken due to a powerful shower falling; before this Wellington bounced back and took four wickets for 43 to see the score be 112-4 as Oli Beale, Richard Henwood and a comical run out that was ended by Dave Luxton got in amongst the wickets and at 125-4 in 34 overs when the rain came it was about even in the game, but over fifty runs came after tea as Bryant with 21 aided Malcolm to boost Yeovil’s score to 181-5 despite Dave Luxton, doing a good job as stand in keeper, accepting a looping chance off of Bryant from the bowling of Nathan Roberts, now permanently with the Club following his family’s move from Cornwall.

Andy Hurry went wicketless, but only let 23 runs go in eight classy medium paced overs.

Wellington would be batting on different wicket than had been the case when the home side had been and only Oli Beale with 24 and Richard Henwood with 32 made double figures as Plympton with 2-18 in eight overs, Kember with 2-25 in eight overs and Malcolm, who continued his decent game, with 2-7 in eight overs tied Wellington down as they looked for full points from the game and at 93-8 with plenty of overs to still go it was home advantage all the way it seemed, but Olly Hunt and David Derrick saw out time with an unbeaten eleven run stand for the ninth wicket and secured the fifth batting point to make it ten all told for the side and they stay sixth, one place above Yeovil, in the table.